Winnowed Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they…
— Carl Sagan
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There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
— Edward Abbey
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Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your…
— James Lileks
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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like…
— William James
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the…
— Mishka
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Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit…
— Lawren Harris
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
— Carl Sagan
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In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey…
— Thomas Boswell
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on…
— Warren Ellis
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It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in…
— Buddha
Who Wrote These Winnowed Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Winnowed Quotes as follows: